The Color Picker

Now we need to learn how to use the color correctly. For this point, the cursor on the “Color” icon on the left tools panel and click on a square under the “Color” inscription. By doing so, you will see a panel that allows you to pick a color. Within this panel are further options for other color pickers. You have five different color pickers; the last one allows you to pick a color from any image you load.

This color will paint the square you pointed at. It shows the current color. You can choose the second color too: click on an icon right next to the first color icon in the “The color” box (in this picture, the first color is green, and the second is black).
Apart from a standard set of color options, the “Pick color” window contains various color selection modes: HSL and IMG (selection from image). For the latter one, there are additional buttons available.

There are five Color Pickers to choose from. These are made available by left-clicking on the color swatches in the top left of the main Paint Tool Panel. They are:

Triangular
Bar
Round
Quad
Image

These are made available by left-clicking on the color swatches in the top left of the main Paint Tool Panel. The pickers work just like their equivalents in other mainstream painting applications.

Image Color Picker

While the first four are common, let’s discuss the Image Color Picker a bit more in detail.

It allows you to pick a color from an image and is also handy for keeping a reference image open at all times during sculpting or painting operations. You can manipulate which portion of this image is visible, and its position in the window with the three gizmo controls in this panel.
Select the image of choice with the Select button or Paste the image from your Clipboard. Once used, an image becomes available via the drop-down arrow to the right of the image name.

Image Color Panel

The exception is the Color Image Panel, which allows you to assign an image of your choice, from which you can choose any hue present in the image for painting.
This is also quite handy for keeping a reference image open at all times during sculpting or painting operations.

You can manipulate which portion of this image is visible and its position in the window, with the three controls just underneath it and to the left of the image window.
Select the image of choice with the “Select” button or “Paste” the image from your Clipboard. Once used, an image becomes available via the “drop-down arrow” to the right of the image name.

Tutorial

Image Picker: This video demonstrates the Image Picker in 3DCoat, which allows the user to sample color information from an image, as well as serve as a dockable reference image.

Using Reference Images: This video demonstrates the usage of reference images. Either as Image Planes in the viewport or usage of the Image Picker as a static reference image within the UI.

This color will paint the square you pointed at. It shows the current color. You can choose the second color too: click on an icon right next to the first color icon in the “The color” box (in this picture, the first color is green, and the second is black). The second color is used in the diffuse channel while you work with the drop list.

Apart from a standard set of color options, the “Pick color” window contains various color selection modes: HSL and IMG (selection from image). For the latter one, there are additional buttons available.

There are further options for the image color picker panel:

Manipulator Icons. With the icons left top of the image color picker, you can pan/zoom/reset the position of the image.
Select. Select an image from the file.
Paste. Paste the image from the clipboard and use it like a custom picker.
Image Drop down list. If you have more than one image, you can multi-select from each by clicking here in the list.

In addition, for a fast choice of color, you press and hold the “B” key (when calling it this way, you open the downsize “Pick color” window, same as when calling from the Windows→Popups- >Color picker. RMB’ to disable/enable the use of color. It is equivalent to choosing a white color. You can take color directly from a surface, point the cursor on a corresponding place, and press “V”.